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Graduate Certificate in Urban Horticulture

  • Graduate Certificate

Looking for a career change with a focus on plants? The Graduate Certificate of Urban Horticulture is a perfect introduction to the foundations of designing, creating, managing and advocating for urban green spaces.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Certificate
Duration
1 year part-time
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Mar, Jul

About this course

Looking for a career change with a focus on plants? The Graduate Certificate of Urban Horticulture is a perfect introduction to the foundations of designing, creating, managing and advocating for urban green spaces.

Study locations

Burnley

What you will learn

Course structure

The Graduate Certificate in Urban Horticulture is a 50-point program (four compulsory core subjects).

You'll leave the course with knowledge and practical skills in the planning, installation and management of vegetation across a range of urban landscape applications.

You'll study the science, function and identification of landscape plants, as well as their propagation, cultivation and use. You'll also learn how soil, water and growing conditions impact plants.

Career pathways

Career outcomes

Our graduates go on to work as: horticulturalists, arborists, revegetation and restoration specialists, landscape designers, open space managers, and nursery and greenhouse managers.

How to apply

Application closing dates

Start-year 2021
Timely applications: 30 November 2020
Late applications: 31 January 2021

Mid-year 2021
Timely applications: 30 May 2021

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Science & Mathematics courses at University of Melbourne.
81.1%
Overall satisfaction
85.4%
Skill scale
72.6%
Teaching scale
74.8%
Employed full-time
$75k
Average salary